Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Series (2024-2025)

Utilizing modern curriculum storyboarding concepts, participants will discuss curriculum documents that will help to define the role of each teacher in a co-teach environment, and learn how to share the teaching and enhance and highlight each other's expertise. Let's bring together ENL and content area teachers to build an understanding of how to use grade appropriate standards with specialized populations. Whether utilizing curriculum mapping software or Google workbooks, sheets and/or docs, curriculum documents can be produced, organized and shared.

The workshop "Making Thinking Visible—Equitable Classroom Routines for Deepening
Student Learning" will provide educators with actionable strategies to create more
inclusive and equitable classroom environments. Participants will learn how to apply
routines that encourage visible thinking, promote student engagement, and deepen
learning, with a focus on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.

Traditional methods of science teaching often rely on student background knowledge and frontloading vocabulary instruction to achieve student understanding. These instructional techniques tend to leave gaps in equity and student success, particularly for ELL students. The New York State Science Learning Standards (NYSSLS) and the instructional shifts that accompany them have been developed to address this issue. The goal of contemporary science instruction is to integrate science and language and move students from using everyday language to specialized language in science. In this webinar, participants will experience and reflect upon contemporary ways of teaching science with a focus on how to effectively address ELL needs. In particular, the ABC (Activity Before Content), and CBV (Concept Before Vocabulary) strategies will be explored.

Utilizing modern curriculum storyboarding concepts, participants will discuss curriculum documents that will help to define the role of each teacher in a co-teach environment, and learn how to share the teaching and enhance and highlight each other's expertise. Let's bring together ENL and content area teachers to build an understanding of how to use grade appropriate standards with specialized populations. Whether utilizing curriculum mapping software or Google workbooks, sheets and/or docs, curriculum documents can be produced, organized and shared.

The workshop "Making Thinking Visible—Equitable Classroom Routines for Deepening
Student Learning" will provide educators with actionable strategies to create more
inclusive and equitable classroom environments. Participants will learn how to apply
routines that encourage visible thinking, promote student engagement, and deepen
learning, with a focus on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.

Utilizing modern curriculum storyboarding concepts, participants will discuss curriculum documents that will help to define the role of each teacher in a co-teach environment, and learn how to share the teaching and enhance and highlight each other's expertise. Let's bring together ENL and content area teachers to build an understanding of how to use grade appropriate standards with specialized populations. Whether utilizing curriculum mapping software or Google workbooks, sheets and/or docs, curriculum documents can be produced, organized and shared.

"Co-teaching" models have changed dramatically since its inception. So where does co-teaching fit into the ever changing landscape of 21st century learning?Take a deep dive into what still works, what doesn't, and the new roles co-teachers play in our modern classroom.

The workshop "Making Thinking Visible—Equitable Classroom Routines for Deepening
Student Learning" will provide educators with actionable strategies to create more
inclusive and equitable classroom environments. Participants will learn how to apply
routines that encourage visible thinking, promote student engagement, and deepen
learning, with a focus on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.

This session will cover methods of incorporating various artforms and creativity into the classroom for multilanguage or English as a second language learners. The presentation discusses how teachers can use their own curriculums and learning goals to inspire their students with creativity.